As a "sample of the quality of the projects presented and the commitment of our university and our researchers and researchers with the transfer of knowledge, wealth generation and the development of research results with commercial operating power," says the University Research Vice Chancellor Of Vigo, Asunción Longo, the selection of three initiatives of the academic institution of Vigo among the seven chosen in the 2nd phase of the first edition of the Ignicia Program. The Xunta de Galicia, through the Galician Innovation Agency, Gain, and with the collaboration of the Barrié Foundation, convened this year for the first time the Ignicia Program, aimed at universities, research and technology centers and hospital foundations, with the aim of moving forward Stages of maturation of the research results to reach its commercialization. After a first phase involving more than thirty projects, of which only 25, seven of them from the University of Vigo, were selected, in the second phase, called maturation and investment, the jury elected seven initiatives: three of the universities of Vigo and Santiago and one from Gradiant.

The selected projects were presented today at an event held in Santiago de Compostela, chaired by the head of this department, Francisco Conde and José María Arias Mosquera, president of the Barrié Foundation, an entity that collaborates on this initiative, which Conde predicts that it will allow "to link about 50 jobs , With an investment of two million euros ". The intensity of the aid that each project will receive, which will be determined individually by the Investment Committee, will finance the necessary expenses to develop the commercial applications of the projects: market studies, technical validation, analysis of business opportunities and business, or proposal formulation To companies or investors that can contribute to the advance in the commercialization phase. In addition, Xunta shares the risk of each project, while guaranteeing its participation in the possible benefits.